Kindle Notebook JS for scraping Kindle highlights and notes
If you are looking for a way to import Kindle highlights and notes, I've created a bookmarklet to download them using your browser:
https://github.com/okomestudio/kindle-notebook-js
There are a few open-source JavaScript bookmarklets of this kind available already, so why a new project? The one I’ve been using for a long time recently broke (https://github.com/TristanH/bookcision), and a project like this tends not to be well-maintained due to low demand and moderate effort necessary to keep up with upstream changes. I wanted to maintain some control over my own workflow without interruptions.
I’m not aiming high and intend to keep this a minimalist utility, but there seem to be quite a few minimalists here with their preferred ways of integrating Kindle/ebooks. Maybe a project like this can help in the niche.
For example, I use Org mode in Emacs. As such, I want to obtain highlights and notes in a format that has low friction when converting into an Org document. For me, it's currently JSON (as I’ve already written a converter), but I could see many wanting this in another format.
Anyway, please feel free to use or make feature requests so long as they stay within minimalism. Thanks for your attention.
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